Portal:Current events/2024 February 10

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • The IDF claims to have discovered a Hamas data center under UNRWA's Gaza Strip headquarters. (Times of Israel)
  • Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present)
    • Red Sea crisis
      • Seventeen Houthi fighters are killed during airstrikes launched by the United States and the United Kingdom in Yemen. (Al Jazeera)
• Kivu conflict
  • M23 offensive
    • Tens of thousands of people flee to Goma, the capital of the DR Congo's North Kivu province, as M23 rebels advance towards the city. (BBC News)
• Somali civil war
  • Four Emirati soldiers and a Bahraini military officer are killed, while ten other people are injured, when a soldier opens fire at a military base in Mogadishu, Somalia, before being killed in the ensuing shootout. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• France's EDF shuts down two nuclear reactors due to a fire at the Chinon Nuclear Power Plant. (Reuters)
• A Eurocopter EC130 helicopter crashes near Nipton, California, United States, killing all the six people on board, including Nigerian banker Herbert Wigwe. (CBS News)

Politics and elections

• 2023–2024 Senegalese protests
  • Violent protests occur in Senegal following an announcement by President Macky Sall that presidential elections have been delayed from February 25 to December 15. (Sky News)
• 2024 Pakistani general election
  • Despite Imran Khan's lead, Nawaz Sharif claims victory amid allegations of military-led rigging of the election. (Time)
• President of Hungary Katalin Novák resigns one week after news media revealed that she had pardoned a person who had been convicted of aiding in child sex abuse. (Reuters)

Sports

• 2023 AFC Asian Cup
  • In association football, hosts Qatar win their second consecutive Asian Cup title after defeating Jordan 3–1 in the final. Akram Afif earns a hat-trick—all scored from penalty kicks. (Reuters via The Guardian)